“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. These words made headlines around the globe as the US President denied his affair with a young White House intern. Oral sex in the Oval office and the stained blue dress made Bill Clinton only the second President in US history to be impeached.
The story was broken on an internet gossip site in January 1998. Monica Lewinsky was 21 when she began an 18-month relationship with the President during his first term. She went on to confide its details to her co-worker Linda Tripp. Tripp secretly recorded their telephone conversations and delivered the tapes to the independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Supported by his wife Hillary, Clinton publicly denied the affair. As the investigation progressed, Clinton admitted having had an “improper physical relationship” with Lewinsky. Starr sent his report – all 36 boxes of it – to the House of Representatives, recommending possible grounds for Clinton’s impeachment, including perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton was impeached but acquitted on all charges in a Senate trial in 1999.
The story was broken on an internet gossip site in January 1998. Monica Lewinsky was 21 when she began an 18-month relationship with the President during his first term. She went on to confide its details to her co-worker Linda Tripp. Tripp secretly recorded their telephone conversations and delivered the tapes to the independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Supported by his wife Hillary, Clinton publicly denied the affair. As the investigation progressed, Clinton admitted having had an “improper physical relationship” with Lewinsky. Starr sent his report – all 36 boxes of it – to the House of Representatives, recommending possible grounds for Clinton’s impeachment, including perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton was impeached but acquitted on all charges in a Senate trial in 1999.
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